Harley Conference
British Library Conference Centre
29-30 June 2009
Programme
Day 1: Monday, 29 June
9:00-9:45
Registration
9:50-10:10
Welcome and Introduction to the Harley collection
Session 1
Chair: Scot McKendrick
10:10-10:40:
Frances Harris: The Harleys as Collectors
10:40-11:10
Deirdre Jackson: Humfrey Wanley and the Harley
Collection
11:10-11:30
Coffee and tea break
Session 2
Chair: Lucy Sandler
11:30-12:00
Colum Hourihane: Pontius Pilate in Thirteenth-century
Manuscripts
12:00-12:30
Maud Perez-Simon: Stretching Models: Shedding Light
on the Images and Text of MS Harley 4979
12:30-1:30
Lunch
1.00-1.20
Sarah Biggs: Demonstration of the digital Catalogue of
Illuminated Manuscripts. Meeting Room 1
Session 3
Chair: Anne Hedeman
1:30-2:00
Marie-Thérèse Gousset: Christine de Pizan, Harley 4431
and the Master of the Cité des Dames
2:00-2:30
James Laidlaw: Tag the Queen’s Manuscript?
Elementary, my Dear Christine
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2:30-3:00
Coffee and tea break
Session 4
Chair: Tony Edwards
3:00-3:30
Julian Luxford: The Aesthetics of Error in Harley 612
3:30-4:00
Sarah Pittaway: Text and Image in Harley 1766,
Lydgate’s Fall of Princes
4:00-4:15
Break
4:15-5:00
Introduction: Kathleen Doyle
Demonstration by Patricia Lovett: Gold on Parchment: A
Consideration and Demonstration of the Tools and
Materials used in Medieval Manuscripts
5:00-6:00
Introduction: John Lowden
Keynote speaker: Jeffrey Hamburger: The Hand of God
and the Hand of the Scribe: Collaboration in the
Scriptorium of the Abbey of Arnstein
6:00
Reception
Day 2: 30 June
9:50-10:10
Introduction and welcome
Session 5
Chair: David Ganz
10:10-10:40
Richard Gameson: The Artist of the Ramsey Psalter
10:40-11:10
Kathryn Rudy: Talismans in Harley Manuscripts
11:10-11:40
Coffee and tea break
Session 6
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11:40-12:10
Hanno Wijsman: Harley 1310: Good Manners for a
Burgundian Nobleman
12:10-12:40
Anne Hedeman: Advising France through the Example
of England: Visual Narrative in the Livre de la prinse et
mort du roy Richart (Harley 1319)
12:40-1:10
Jörg Völlnagel: Harley 3469: The Splendor Solis or The
Splendour of the Sun: A German Alchemical Manuscript
1:10-2:55
Lunch
1:30-2:00
Sarah Biggs: Demonstration of the digital Catalogue of
Illuminated Manuscripts. Meeting Room 1
2:10-2:50
AMARC Annual General Meeting: Meeting Room 2
Session 7
Chair: Alixe Bovey
2:55-3:25
Alison Walker: The Westminster Tournament Challenge
and Early Tudor Pageantry
3:25-3:55
Marigold Anne Norbye: History in Diagram and
Genealogical Tree: Pierre de Poitiers’ Compendium and
a French Universal Roll Chronicle
3:55-4:20
Coffee and tea break
Session 8
Chair: Stella Panayotova
4:20-4:50
Catherine Yvard: The Master of the Dark Eyes, Martin
Schongauer, and Other Surprises: Disentangling Harley
1892
4:50-5:20
Francesca Manzari: Harley 2979 and the Books of
Hours Produced in Avignon by Jean de Toulouse
5:20-5:30
Closing remarks
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Generously supported by:
AMARC
THE SCOULOUDI FOUNDATION
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